China Eases Strict Covid Rules for Table Tennis Tournaments

Table tennis final is China’s first major event since Olympics
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WATCH: China’s Covid Zero policy has kept its borders largely shut, but it eased rules for table tennis as the country hosts its first major sporting event since the Beijing Olympics, bringing together hundreds of athletes from more than 30 countries.Source: Quicktake by Bloomberg

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By Kurumi Mori

October 29, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Corrected

October 29, 2022 at 5:33 AM UTC

As millions of people in the Chinese city of Chengdu exited a weeks-long Covid-19 lockdown last month, hundreds of professional table tennis players from 30 countries boarded charter flights into the metropolis -- freshly sanitized paddles in hand -- to compete in the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships Final.

No quarantine required.